No caress to the grandfather, the mother, the dying brother. No liturgical parting for those who believe in the Risen Jesus Christ, no burial chamber for those who don’t believe.

The body sealed in the coffin in a hurry to avoid contagions by the operators of the funeral honors. The coffin sent to the crematorium also with the help of army trucks in the province of Bergamo, where they were killed by the lethal CoVid-19 and hundreds of people continue to die per day. So, even today, we die in Italy for the new SARS-2, without even the consolation of a friendly face.

And for the purpose of this human affective and spiritual agony, when the “so much fatigue was turned” towards the “immense horrid abyss” feared by Giacomo Leopardi’s poem before it is “the soul returned / from the squalid valley / To the Divine who is silent” as invoked by the Resurrection of Alessandro Manzoni, here even the conquest of the “correspondence of loving senses” which for Ugo Foscolo “heavenly dowry is in humans” thanks to the Sepulchres, becomes a grim, unexpected, inhuman challenge even more than the unfortunately very human merciless look of death …

It’s the ransom! You read that right … The ransom to get back the funeral urn with the dusty remains of the dear extinct.

The story happened in Central Italy is so absurd and terrible as to induce us to tell it immediately, without any further details, so that those who have some power in Italy can be alerted for a timely intervention…

The unfortunate story was the subject of a press release from the national press office of FederConsumatori (Consumers Federation), which represents an organization for the protection of citizens-customers officially recognized by the Italian State. Therefore the news is worthy of the maximum reliability.

The same representatives of this institution illustrate the episode with bewilderment and disappointment by announcing the appropriate verifications of the case to ascertain that there have been no misunderstandings. But the issue in itself is so simple that it has induced them to report it to the media in the fear that this unfortunate episode is not the only one.

«We received a request for help from a family who lost a loved one due to the coronavirus in Milan. After hours and days full of pain and anxiety, the family members were contacted by the funeral home which asks for an amount of about 4,000 Euros to have the funeral urn and be able to proceed with the burial» reads the official statement sent by email from FederConsumatori national offices in Rome.

«It would seem, in fact, that they have been charged a daily rate (of around 200 Euros per day) for the days when the body was hosted at a facility in Emilia Romagna awaiting cremation. A far-fetched and shameful affair, which we hope is the result of an error, which in any case we will deepen to understand whose responsibilities are» adds the association of consumer defense.

In the areas of Bergamo and the border with Piedmont, it appears that the costs asked of the families of the deceased are considerably lower, also for cremations that took place outside the province or outside the region, the statement states.

«We hope, therefore, that this is an isolated case. If this is not the case, we invite the families involved to report it to us, we will assist them with discretion and respect, to ensure that anger should not be added to the pain experienced» adds FederConsumatori.

«Finally, we ask the Government, the local institutions of the areas where the mortality phenomenon is higher, as well as throughout the rest of the country, to carefully check that no similar acts occur in their territory, that not allow to no structure to ask for compensation for the parking of the corpses, which the Municipality of reference will have to take charge of» the citizens’ paladins in Rome have written with a bitter final observation…

«There are many cases of speculation and anomalies that, unfortunately, we have had to face during this pandemic. Until now, however, we had come across forms of looting that relied on fear, today we are faced with those who speculate on pain».

Fabio is Director and Editor of Gospa News; a Christian Information Journal. Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter since he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became deputy director of a local newspaper and specialized in judicial reporting. For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime. With independent investigations he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians. In July 2018 he found the counter-information webmedia Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East and military intelligence. He is a correspondent from Italy for the French news site Reseau International. He worked since many years for the magazine Art & Wine as art critic and curator http://www.art-wine.eu/

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